Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-02-23
Straps and fafts.

q snowfall. In Dakota, January %, the
flakes were tremendous in size. some
were larger than milk pans. Some flakes
measured fifteen inches square and eight
inches thick. For miles the ground was
covered with such lunches, and they made
remarkable spectacle while falling.
= The Baltimore american says: "The
South cannot reach wealth by one boom.
Industrial greatness is not matter OF
hours it is the growth OF years. Invest
ments will not turn out fortunes in week {;
| they must have time to mature. The South
| is all right, but it owes its growth to the
people who work, and not to-, those who
spend their time in talk"
= The labor question is still agitating the
farmers and planters of the hill country of
Central Mississippi, and those who are los
! ing their hands are making it hot for the
labor agents. The latest sensation in this
line is the expulsion of 6. III. Hammond, an
old resident of HarristOn, on the Mississip-
| pi valley road, from that town for inducing
4 the negroes to leave the country tor the
swamps.
"A resolution was introduced in the North
Carolina House of Represents on Thurs
day last directing the attorney general to
| institute suits at once against the various
railways in the Stsst.e for failure to make
annual reports to- .ae State treasurer, as
required by the Act of 1871, which fixes the
fpenalty of each violation of the law at $500.
The resolution says the amount of penalties
now aggregates $125, 600 and it proposes to
lplacF this sum in the scnool fund.
AShould woman be hanged? was ques-
| stioh debated by the New York State AS
sehbly on Friday. A bill exempting Wo-
men from the death penalty was the occa-
sion of the debate, and the bill was killed
h ,c &o ho M
! i'm the desire of certain persons to save from
the gallows Mrs. Druse, under the convic-
tion for murder in the central part of the
State. It is probable that Governor Hill
will not now pardon her.
- There are already a few delegates at
3Cincinnati, o., to attend the Industrial Con-
Mention or Conference, called to meet Feb
ruary %. Mr.. Winston, of North Carolina,
who has been identified with the Green
hackers, is among the early arrivals. Lo-
cal delegates are careful to correct the gen
eral impression that the convention will be
controlled by the knights of Labor. Said
official sanction. Individual knights may
attend as delegates, but they will have no
authority from the order"
There are one hundred and eighty-five
Democrats in the present House. 1t re-
uuires only one hundred and sixty-three
members to constitute quorum, yet there
bis hardly day that the Republicans do not
4defeat Democratic legislation by refusing to
vote, thus leaving the House without a
Quorum. A regular attendant Informed
correspondent recently that the average
number of Democrats absent daily from the
House was about forty. On the other side
lit came to voting. It is the. old story, Re-
publican discipline and Democratic demor-
aiz2tion.
-aNlarge cave, made up of many rooms OF
1gLEat extent, has been found in Marshall
county, Texas. In one of the. chambers
There were found two human skeletons,
[about six hundred dollars in gold and sill
ver coin and quantity of silverware. The
leave is believed to have been the hiding
place, during the late war, of band of que
rillas known as ''Bloody Bill Brady's gang"
These marauders were attacked near Ben
ton, Marshall county, in 1864, and all but
two were killed. These two escaped, and
going, as it is thought, to this cave quarrell-
ed over division of the spoils of the gang,
and following their murderous bent, shot
and killed each other.
u. Milton Turner, eX-Minister to Libe.
ria, does not take any stock in the alleged
reason for the rejection of Mr.. Matthews by
1.-THE United States Senate. He says it is an
Insult to the colored race, and that "this
action by the Republican Senate has done
more to: make Democratic votes among
the colored people than any act that party
could do" $50 far as am concerned" he
adds. ssif Grover Cleveland is renominated
. for the Presidency by any party whatsoev-
er, I shall deem it my duty to my race to
enough to rise to the standard of Charles
Sumner and Thad Stevens, it can 60 and we
can choose one that WILL"
The great railroad companies are all
coming to the conclusion that the Inter.
State commerce law forbids them to issue
passes to any person who is not one OF their
EMPLOYEES, and some of them are sending
out circular notices to that effect. The ST.
Paul Company tells the editors on its line
that it cannot issue passes even in payment
for advertising. The pass business has been
overdone, especially in the West. Presi.
dent Adams declares that passes to the
the Union Pacific. The enforcement of the
new law will cut down the profits of the
travelling theatrical companies, and will
force many members of Congress tQspend
some Of their generous mileage>alloW
70. B. Parkes, sustabdai farmer living
Dkar Kingston, Kentucky, has successfully
Trained a force of seven large monkeys to
work in his hemp fields, and to break and
pfepare the hemp for market. They do the
work more quickly and better than the ne
proes he formerly employed, and at about
one fourth the cost 1t required about four
months of patient work to train the animals,
but they now do their tasks with rare intel
ligence. The monkeys were sent to Mr..
Parkes by a brother, who is in business in
Cape Town, South Africa, and who had seen
the animals put to similar uses there. Mr..
Parkes has sent for ten more of the useful
imitators of human workmen, six of them
to be used by John G. Taylor, neighboring
farmer who is also an extensive raiser OF
hemp.
"A Fort Worth, Texas, dispatch says
The drouth commissioners appointed by
Governor Ross to distribute the 100000
appropriated by the Legislature for the re-
lief Of the people of the drouth-stricken
district of Texas, arrived in this city on
the midnight train Saturday night and
spent Sunday here, leaving for Eastand,
The county seat, yesterday. The commits,
sioners began their labors at Lampasas, and
have visited and inspected the condition OF
affairs in six counties, up to the present
time. They say they find the people IN
heed of assistance wherever they have been,
but the principal things they need are seed
and feea for their stock, and these the COM
mission has not the power or authority to
furnish them, the Legislature having re-
btricted them to simply furnish flour and
meal to those in actual need of bread, and
who will take the required oath to that